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THE BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY. MARCH 9. 1909.

12 WOMAN LASHES MAN. Letters to the Editor. TRUSTED TO SICiL USe BY GOV. HUGHES LT TICKETS BY THOUSANDS Mrs. McLellan Beats a Lawyer in a Boston Street.

Boston, March 9 There was a brief tumult In State street. Just after the opening of the Stock Exchange to-day, when a well-dressed woman was eeen lashing George Sweetser. a lawyer, well known locally, with a stout dog whip. Three heavy blows bad fallen upon the head and face of Mr. Sweetser as he stepped out of hiB office, nearly opposite the Stock Exchange, before a number of brokers and messengers who witnessed the affair couid Interfere.

The woman was Mrs. Jessie B. McLellan of Natick, whodeclared that Sweetser had persecuted her in connection with a breach of promise suit which she had brought against a Boston business man, Mr. Sweetser being counsel for the respondent. VICTIM OF GANG WARFARE Long-Time Feud Responsible for Murphy's Murder.

Had Separated Two Fighting Boys, Later Laid Out by Brick or Blackjack. What is believed to be a climax to the warfare between the "Greenpolnt gang and the "North Side gang" occurred, last night, when Michael Murphy, 48 years old, of 91 Russell street, was killed, either by the use of a blackjack or a stone. For many years the two gangs have been at It hammer and tongs. They have always reserved the territory known as MeCar ren Park, for their battleground, and there in the daytime, but more often at night, clashes have taken place. Murphy interfered with two little boys who were engaged In a fight, last night, and got into an argument with two men, The two men became ugly, and Murphy, who was six feet tall, thrashed both of them.

Then ha went on his way, but he hadn't gone very far before he was at tacked and struck on the head with either a blackjack or a rock. The police de clare the man was hit by a stone thrown by an unknown person, but others say that the wound was undoubtedly that of a blackjack. It is declared that Murphy said he had been attacked by a gang of ruffians, before he died, and that one of them struck him with some blunt instrument over the head. The man's wound was not at first thought serious. He went into a drug store, after the fight, and the drug store man sent for an ambulance.

Dr. Jaffe of the Eastern District Hospital at tended him and removed him to that in stitution. where he died at midnight. The police were at once notified and they got on the trail of the assassin. Detectives of the Herbert street station were sent out.

This morning a man giving his name as Alexander Schmidt, a native of Po land, 28 years old, of 16 Diamond street, was arrested by Patrolman Wahl on sus picion of knowing something about the attack on Murphy. Schmidt was seen to board a Graham avenue car about the time and in the vicinity of the assault on Murphy. JOLLY ROGER IS 0. K. So Is Its Experienced Navigator for Whom the Police Sent Out an Alarm.

A general alarm was sent out this morning from headquarters of the police for Norman P. who had dis appeared last night from the foot of Main street, Manhattan, in a sixteen foot boat The police were asked to search for him early this morning, by his father, Nor man P. Hicks of 773 Eastern Parkway, The son is 25 years old and lives with his wife and family at 1362 St. John's place. Young Mr.

Hicks is a stenographer and be has had a lot of experience as a seafaring person, for he was on the St. Mary School Ship in his early, life and has pretty nearly circumnavigated the globe. His ambition was to have a motor boat and he got one. That was on Saturday. He started off to take her to Canarsle, where be had a berthing privilege, but the machinery broke down and Mr.

Hicks was forced to abandon the boat for the time being. Yesterday he got the thing started again and flying the "Jolly Roger ha got the chug-chugger headed for Jamaica Bay. Nothing was heard from him through the night and his fam ily was very much disturbed over him and sought the aid of the police. And Just as soon as the machinery of the Po lice Department was started In the hunt for him he turned up. safe and sound, In Canarsie.

Norman junior had had a tough Job In getting the boat to its proper mooring, but he had had tougher jobs before and he did not mind the night's exposure a bit. He had nothing to say about his experiences. He simply telephoned his mother that all was well. RAILROAD MEN'S HOME. Sag Harbor Hears One Is to Be Built by Benevolent Woman Near That Place.

(Special to the Eagle.) Sag Harbor, L. 'March 9 Parties have been here looking Into the eligibility of the Spring Farm, south of this place and on the high hills of the middle Island, for the establishment of a home for retired, ill or indigent railroad employes. It is reported that Mrs. Russell Sage, who has the Interests of the rr.llroad men much at heart and has also done much for the growth and expansion of Sag Harbor, Is back of the project, but this could not be authenticated. Spring Farm is delightfully located, and on it is a healing spring of water, to which, in former times, the Long Island Indians came from all parts to drink and secure relief from physical ills.

there are also current rumors of a hospital, home for aged women and other benevolences contemplated by Mrs. Sage, but the rumors cannot be verified, Mrs. Sage not being here, and her local agent declines to discuss her plans. PAUPER FALLS TO DEATH. Body Found Sunday Morning Accident Revealed To-day.

It was learned to-day that John Sullivan, a pauper inmate of the Home for the Aged, on Clarkson street, had died from a fractured skull caused by a fall early on Sunday morning. The case was reported to the coroner and to the police of the Flatbush station, by Dr. Fitzgerald, but for some unknown reason they failed to give out any information concerning the accident until to-day. It appears that Sullivan, who was 64 years old, left his ward at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, and In some way reached the yard. He evidently started to walk up the stairs leading from the yard to the dining room, and fell back into the yard, as he was found apparently dead about 6:30 by Peter Cusack, a fellow inmate.

Ambulance Surgeon Tonapy of the Kings County Hospital examined the body and said the man's skull had been fractured and death had resulted from this cause. CZAR ABOLISHES DRUMS. St. Petersburg. March 9 Emperor Nicholas has signed an order abolishing the use of drums in the army in time of war.

Drummers in the future will be trained in marksmanship and In wartime will become combatants. HIS SISTER FROM Genario Stabilo, Neapolitan, Now Hunts Her With Detectives in Vain. SHE'S 22 AND A PRETTY GIRL. Besides, She Has $100 Cash and Two Trunks of Heirlooms Queer Tracing of Car Lines. Detectives Pucciano and Stabile of the local Italian squad spent the most of yesterday In search for Roslna Stabile, recently from Ilaly on the steamship San Giovanni, which reached this port on Friday last.

Roslna had $S0 or $100 with her, her brother does not know exactly how much, and two trunks full of clothing and family heirlooms which she brought from her Neapolitan home. She came with her brother, Tenarlo Stabilo, who has lost her in the metropoli tan shuffle, and who went around with the detectives In search of her. According to the brother, who was a farmer In Italy, she is exceedingly handsome and only 2 2years old. They were to come to America together to pave a way here for other younger members of the tSabilo family, an don the way out they formed the acquaintance of a man and a wamon from Sicily who were very friendly indeed, and particularly with Rosina. The people were Inseparable on the trip, and ere the vessel reached quarantine it had been settled that the brother and sister, who had never been in the United States before, should go to the home of- their newly found friends, which was somewhere In Brooklyn.

So the two trunks were checked to the house of the Sicilians and the brother and sister, on getting through the formalities on landing as aliens, proceeded to the home of the other people. On Saturday morning Genarlo left his sister In the hands of the couple and said he would try to find his way to the home of acquaintances In Manhattan. He did find Dr. R. Falcone, at 317 Broome street, a family friend, and he stayed over night at the doctor's house.

On Sunday he returned to Brooklyn and spent the entire day trying to find out the whereabouts of Rosina. But he did not have the name of the people at whose house she was staying, he did not know their names, and there was no way of guidance for him except to try to follow his tracks on Friday from Manhattan. He crossed more than one ferry in a vain attempt to find certain landmarks that were fixed In his mind, as he thought, but all ferry houses looked alike to him. He remembered that he took a car and rode for about an hour and transferred to another car and rode about a minute or two and then walked several squares to the house. He remembered, too, at the point of transfer, that there was a fruit stand, but he could not find, in a lot of car ridings, any fruit stand at any transfer point that looked like the one he had noticed.

He spent a dollar that the doctor had given him to try to find the place, but the dollar went In car and ferry fares and there was no result. So he went back to the doctor's house. "See Vachrls about that," was the doctor's advice, and so the young man came into acquaintance with Lieutenant Vach-ria, the head of the local Italian squad. Vachris detailed Pucciano and Stabilo to the job of finding Roslna Stabilo and they spent nearly the entire day yesterday going from ferry to ferry, without any result. Rosina is still missing, and Stabilo, the brother, has but 60 cents left of bis last dollar; that, too, after the-detectives paid all of his carfares yesterday.

The brother's fear Is that Rosina Is detained against her will, and he has been imagining all sorts of evil things about her supposed friends. He is sure that it she was not in some way under bondage she would have tried to find him, for she iB good, as well as pretty, and most affectionate. His impression is that she is being held for evil purposes, and that the unknown Italians who took her away have taken possession of her person, her money and her luggage. The brother spent a busy and anxious day yesterday. The detectives crossed a lot of ferries with They went to that at the foot of Atlantic avenue, then the ferry at the foot of Hamilton avenue, then they proceeded to that at Thirty-'ninth street and crossed over to Manhattan, to- the Battery.

There Stabilo recognized landmarks. He took the detectives to the combination ferry house that leads to the Hamilton and Atlantic avenue ferries, and he led them to the ferryboat that was to lead them to Atlantic avenue. His second visit to the foot of Atlantic avenue resulted in the declaration, from him. that that was the ferry he crossed. Then he took a cai-there, he said, that went up a hill and turned to the left.

The only car was that for Oreenpolnt, and the detectives and the man got on and rode until they got as far an Classon avenue. That was supposed to be the point of transfer, and the detectives got off and got on a Flushing avenue car. riding to the end of the line, with Oenario on the rear platform keeping his eye peeled for some landmark that he might recognize. But there was no landmark. The detectives and the forlorn brother retraced their line of travel and then they learned that not many blocks from where the other people lived there ran a yellow trolley car.

This was a new "leader" for the detectives, and so they reasoned that as the only line which had yellow cars was the Brooklyn and Newtown line, which runs on DeKalb avenue, on Franklin avenue, and on Smith street thev tried all of them. But there wns nothing recognized bv the brother. The day was far spent when they ot through and the brother crossed the bridge to go back to his friend the doctor's. Not a word has been heard from Rosina to-day. The brother said last night that he would borrow more money from the doctor and begin the ouest anew.

It may he. the detectives think, that the woman is with the Italians who live in the neighborhood of Spencer street and Flushine avenue, not many blocks from the DeKalb avenue line of yellow cars, and this afternoon they are to makp a house to house search for her there. The worrying feature the case Is that apparently no one Is looking for Genario. Rosina would be crazy to find him. he thinks, if she was not deprived of her liberty.

PROTECTIONISTS ACTIVE. TJrge Business Men to Go to Washington and Boost the Tariff. Eagle Bureau. 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, March 3 "On to Washington" Is the cry of the American Protective Tariff League, in a circular with which It is flooding the country urging manufacturers and business men to come to the capital and camp out here until the tariff bill Is out of the way.

Members of the ways and means committee who got copies of the league's circulars to-day are madder than hops at the prospect of having their feet dogged here by a swarm of protectionists. The committee has been doing everything possible to avoid interruption to the work of framing the new tariff law. Hearings were concluded long ago and subsequent deliberations have been held beyond closed doors with every member pledged to the most profound secrecy. Now Wilbur F. Wakeman, general secretary of the American Protective League is stirring up the business men to abandon their work and come to Washington to see that, the right kind of a bill is must be right.

In twelve states and thJ District of Columbia men and wonie: own their children together, but In thirty! seven states to-day men are absolutl owners of their children, and the womej must abide by the decision of their huC band with regard to the children. Dofl that eeem right? I tell you. universal suffrage Is bouri to come. It Is evolution, and the blgl Ideals for which women stand are bpunl to help purify politics the sooner, ftb better for humanity at large. MRS.

P. A. HARl Brooklyn, March 8. 1909. LESSON OF THE WINDOW.

Thoughts Inspired by a Memorial ii the Late Dr. Cuyler's Church. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle During the past week I have wonderel many times whether the attention of ollf era who were present at the servicfl over the remains of Dr. Cuyler was a tracted, as mine was, to a window in west wall of the church. Although a member of Lafayette Av nue Church for more than half a centur by reason of long absences and reslden In another city I was unfamiliar with subjects depicted In the Illumined wi dows, but as I waited for the services begin my eye was fascinated by the dlance of one especial feature at the of the window In question.

I have seen thousands of cathedral dows, but never before did I see su white effulgence streaming Into a chuni The general design of the window su gested the baptism of Christ, but feature above was so dazzling in i brilliancy as quite to preclude making Its contour. At Intervals throughout the service- service In which the note of triurnrl seemed to minimize the note of sorrot eye wa uxea upuu mat Dlnze light, and I speculated upon the shape the medium through which It came, for seemea tnat it must be one of the Ga of Pearl. The services lasted until nightfall-, a as tne sun descended there auDear dimly at first, then sharply defined, a rri resentatlon of the dove that allgh npon the Master at His baptism. 1 dove was the medium of the great lie As of old a voice said, "This is my 1 lovea eon, so now a voice seemed me to eay, "This Is My beloved dlsclDl The Master was at the beginning, aisoipie at tne end. of his ministry.

was receiving His communion, the ot! laying bis commission down, but sanction of the Divine Spirit, typified the dove, rested upon both. CHARLES MTTMFORDj Newart, N. March 8, 1909. RESPONSE WAS GENEROUS Eagle Readers Aid Largely In Wc of Belie Ins; Cjndltlon ot the Poor. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle May I be given an opportunity to thel those of your readers who have second-hand clothing to our assoclat as the result of an appeal which made through your columns two we ago? The response to that appeal has very generous and the articles contrl utea nave Deen of the greatest ass ance to many needy families In charge.

Not only have the contributi Included second-hand clothes, both men. and women, but also hats, sh gloves and goods with which to garments. This morning we received a large ot red flannel, containing material many undergarments, such as the oh clans prescribe tor old people and th suffering from rheumatism, many whom we are helping. To purchase th garments ready made, costs us from to $3 a garment. A box contairi sixty-fourwomen's bats was recei from a milliner last week a contrlbu that has enabled us to make mkoy acceptable gifts.

To all our friends who have sent trlbutlons we wish to extend the heart, thanks, not only for ourselves, but those who have been made happy thro, the donations. Small gifts as well' large are received gratefully, and Bent to me at the address given belovi ii. l.NUttAM, Superintendent of Relief, N. Y. A elation for Improving the- Condition the Poor, 105 East Twenty-second stri 105 East Twenty-second street, ManS tan, March 8, 1909.

NO PETTY GRAFT. Mr. Anderson's Charge Against Island Railroad Company Doe Not Seem Well Founded. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you allow me to make publ new form of "graft," fostered by Long Island Railroad Company, so (a prevent, If possible, the mulcting of patrons of that road? I boarded a bound train at New Hyde Park on day at 8:36 P.M. The station not open, I was obliged to pay my fard the train.

My destination was East York, but the conductor refused to i a ticket farther than Jamaica, un riving at Jamaica. I had to transfer Brooklyn train and again pay fare tween Jamaica and East New York. conductor retained 10 cents in addi to the regular fare, and on my prot ing. said it was undoubtedly an out on the public, but that recently he ordered to do so and must obey. 1 Having my 10 cents in his pocke had the better of the argument for time being, and I had to submit.

Now point is this: Has the railroad the rl to charge me 10 cents additional on paid on the train, when it does not mJ tain an open station at tne ooar point? The company's officers know experience that comparatively few re tickets are redeemed, and all unrede ones are so much "grist for their mi It seems to me that under the cm: stances the retention by the conduct any money above the regular rate of Is larceny pure and simple, and I retained the tickets issued to me on train and will ascertain If there law to prevent this extortion. W. H. ANDERSU 89 Decatur street, March 5, 1909 At the office of the Long Island It road Company it was said that no fare was charged Mr. Anderson bet Hyde Park and Jamaica, but thai ticket office being open at Jamalci was his duty to have bought a tick that station for East New York.

If. ever, he preferred to pay his fare orj train and pay the 10 cents excess only had to walk across the track tt station at East New York to get his back again. The company official? they had to make this rule in ord prevent the congestion due to cash paid on a full train. The conductor to issue duplex tickets for cash and where there is a full train it be Impossible for the conducto get through the train between JarJ and East New York. The company that its right to charge the cents has been upheld by the Service Commission.

Ed. Eagle FELL AND BROKE KNEE At 6:30 A.M. to-day August Sangf years old, of 59 Richards avenue, i dale, while crossing a vacant lot at avenue and the Long iBland Rai tracks, fell and sustained a fractu the left knee. He was attended and removed A MANHATTAN VIEW. Mr.

Lamphear Considers Subway Con-ditions and Needs in Brooklyn, To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I would like to call your attention to the question of the extension asked for by the McAdoo people, uptown and through Forty-second street, and possibly along the East Side, to connect with their present tunnel, without cost to the city, and on a basis of a twenty-five-year franchise. The main objection that has been raised to the Brooklyn subway is that no operating company would take over the tunnel after being built by the city in Brooklyn, on a franchise of that character. It seems to me that the very argument of the McAdoo people, and the willingness to put through their extension on this basis, should practically cancel the-objections of the twenty-five-year franchise In Brooklyn, and the proposition narrows down to the basis of whether the Fourth avenue subway should be built or the Lafayette-Broadway route. There is no question but that the Broadway-Lafayette avenue route should be built first; acting as a feeder for all South Brooklyn lines, now built, and which, under present conditions, are not run up to within 60 per cent, ot their capacity. instead of running the trains to Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, on a seven-minute basis, cut them down to three minutes and you will have transit facilities, in connection with the Broadway-Lafayette line, to supply the needs of South Brooklyn for several years to come, and at the same time la building the Broadway-Lafayette route you are taking up a territory of from six hundred to 1,000 persons per acre, as against the South Brooklyn section of from fifty to two or three hundred people per acre.

What the boards of trades should do in Brooklyn to-day is get together, throw all prejudice aside, urge the Am two sections of the underground to be built, carry out the Broadway-Lafayette proposition and then go after the elevated and surface roads leading from the different sections of the city to this line and force them to put a full service on their lines, I believe that Mr. Mats Is doing all he can for the best Interests of the city, and his statement that the Broadway-Lafayette route should be built is only right ana proper. In any event. If the city should build only the two sections. It would mean that on the completion of the Manhattan Bridge, it could run Its own line of cars from New York through the subway and to the large station which is to be built at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush avenues, for a 8-cent fare.

This would mean that the people could transfer from tne surface or elevated road for an additional 6 cents, whereas, under the pres ent conditions of the subway. It costs 10 cents for anyone wishlnr to transfer. I do not agree, however, with Mr. Metz In one argument of his as to build ns the balance of the second section of the suoway tnat Is, carrying it to Ashland place and Fulton street. His statement is that the land to be purchased will cost about $3,000,000, and that the city will never, get any return for It.

He also says that In the purchase that was made of tne land and tmildmn on the New York end of the loop, they were compelled to purchase expensive build ings witn machinery and plants of such buildings, which were sold tor old Junk afterward. This, however, does not apply to the section to be taken, between Flatbush avenue and Ashland place, as it Is composed mostly of old buildings with tne valuations in the land, and in addi tion the location Is central and growing in value so fast that thre Is hardly any question at all, on the completion of the subway, with a roof made sufficiently heavy to carry any large buildings, that the city could obtain on a re-sale of such land, on the completion of the subway. as mucn as it cost it for the entire pur cnase under condemnation. The heart of the business center of Brooklyn Is bound to centralize at this Junction and affect everything on Fulton street and Flatbush avenue within seY' eral blocks of the same. AMOS S.

LAMPHEAR. 25 Pine street, Manhattan, March 9, 13U9. WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE. Mrs. P.

A. Hart Answers Rabbi Lyon and the Eternal Feminine Is In Evidence. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In reply to Rabbi Lyon's arguments against suffrage for women I would like to state, in the first place, that about forty years ago, when higher education of women was agitated, the thought of the men at that time was that It would tend to make woman too masculine They, admitted she should be developed along domestic lines, but the college education feature was a dreadful thought. The early pioneers, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretla Mott, saw the great necessity for higher education for women, and their earnest efforts and uphill work have brought about many of the privileges that women enjoy to-day.

The constitution states that taxation without representation is tyranny; yet to-day in New York Cly, twelve of the largest taxpayers are women. Would any fair-minded man think for an instant that they should not have the right to a voice in the government? The constitution also says it Is a gov ernment of the people, by the people, and tor the people, and are not women peo pie? I think so, and tbey are also mothers and homekeeperB, and in every thing pertaining to the home, politics en ters. If the mother stops to think for a moment, she will know that her children must have good schools, clean streets, good police protection, pure food, pure water and milk, good gas. Everything that maintains the home is a matter ot politics; therefore she should have the vote to help place at the bead of our government persona who will be conscientious and perform their duties faithfully. The home is not only witnln tne tour walls where you abide, but your city and country.

Now for your women wage earner, and there are 600,000 in New York state alone. without anyone to represent them or their individual opinion, most of them without homes, only as they pay for a room in which they live. They are obliged to work as hard and as long as men, with only half the wage, because, they are not constituents and cannot demand equal pay for equal work. The men complain tnat the women are occupying their positions. Why? The employer finds, from an economical stand point, that he can have his work done fully as well for just half the price, but when women have the ballot, they tan demand the same wages as men.

Women pass civil service examinations and receive as high a percentage as men; yet when the subject of salary is spoken of. the question of sex enters into it, and if it is a woman, she receives from $500 to $1,000 less on account of that. Does that seem just? In Colorado, where the women are enfranchised, the ballot boxes are placed In private houses, so that the polls are not such a disgraceful place after all. The argument that women generally do not. want to vote is true, but why? Because they have not given it any thought and they do not know what it means to their less fortunate sisters who have to earn their living.

When we educate our homekeepers along this line, I am quite sure tbey will coincide with a reform that will uplift humanity, especially the women. We consider It Just; tbcrefcra it Detectives Unearth Gigantic Scheme to Defraud Inter-borough Company. "PLANT" FOUND IN BROOKLYN. Press, Dies, Plate and Counterfeit Tickets Seized and Four Persons Arrested. Continuing their search for persons alleged to be -connected wlththe swindling or the elevated and subway railroad systems In Manhattan by the use of counter feit tickets.

Detectives Dale and Miller to-day arrested Harry Relster, 21 years oia, wno lives In the His arrest is the fourth one made, three men and a woman having been locked up last night. According, to the police, more than 000 bogus tickets were confiscated, having been found in the rooms of one of the prisoners. The police and special officers connected with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company are extremely reticent concerning the arrests, saying that others will be made during the day. Inspector McCafferty of the Detective Bureau, where the prisoners were taken, admitted that Relster was employed In a printing establishment In Beekman street, and that his connection with the case was through cutting the tickets as they were printed. What the others did, further than admitting that one had sold them, the Inspector refused to say.

For many weeks the secret service forces of the elevated and subway have been at work. The majority of the counterfeit tickets were discovered to have been deposited In the boxes at One Hundred Forty-ninth street and Third avenue. Under Chief Beaky of the force of detectives employed by the company, detectives went to work. They allege that they found that the tickets were sold at 2H cents apiece in lots of 100 and 2 cents apiece for lots of 1.000. They found, it is alleged, a man who gave his name as Henry J.

Torrens of 166 West Forty-fourth street selling tickets, and the detectives alleged that they purchased 1,000 tickets from him. Then, It is alleged, he went to a place In William street, where he was arrested. Later, the detectives arrested his wife at the address In' West Forty-fourth street, and It Is alleged that 10,000 counterfeit subway tickets and 6,000 elevated tickets were found. All of these were confiscated. The coloring, the police say, was fairly good on the subway tickets, but the elevated tlckots were too light.

The tickets were marked "The Interurban Rapid Transit Company," and not Interborough, the police say. After taking Torrens and his wife to police headquarters last night the detec tives came to Brooklyn and arrested a man who gave his name as Michael Ru-benski, whom they found at 139 Powel) street. In his room, the police say, tbey found the press, dies and plate used for making the tickets. Samuel Rubenskl was later arrested, he being employed, the police say, at 115 William street, and he, it is alleged, said that he had printed the tickets in Michael Rubcnskl'a home. He claimed, the police say, that, he didn't know what he was working on.

After the four prisoners had been locked up. Detectives Dale and Miller went out to locate persons named by the detectives of the company. At Eighteenth street and Third avenue, this morning, they arrested Relster, as he was coming down the stairs of the elevated structure. Further than alleging that he cut off the tickets after they had been printed, Inspector McCafferty refused to say anything. When the prisoners were arraigned in the Tombs police court to-day Torrene said he was a printer, and lived at 156 West Forty-fourth street.

He Is 31 years old. His wife, Helen, who Is also under arrest, is 18 years old. The two Rubin- skis, who live at 139 Powell street, Brooklyn, also said they were printers. Henry Relster. 24 years old.

of 717 Tlnton avenue, the Bronx, who was arrested this morning, is a paper cutter. The prisoners were arraigned on a 'short affidavit. charging them with forgery. Francis H. Moulton.

who represented the Interborough Company, told Magistrate Breen that the secret operatives of the subway and elevated 'roads had unearthed a gigantic conspiracy to defraud the company by means of bogus tickets. He declared that detectives employed by the company had purchased 1,175 Interborough tickets from the defendants a week ago for $15. He said that the agents of the company had already secured between 25,000 and 30,000 bogus tickets and said the surface of the conspiracy had only been scratched. Mr. Moulton said that in the posses sion of Torrens he had found cuts, photoengravings for printing tickets and a large quantity of tickets.

He aeciarea that the Rublnskis did the press work at their home in Brooklyn and that Relster cut the tickets in strips after they were printed. Magistrate Breen held the prisoners for examination next Thursday morning in $5,000 bail each. All of the prisoners were taken to the Tombs and locked up. DEPARTMENT STORES ROBBED. Employes Accused Two Arrests Made and More May Follow.

Two men were held this morning by Magistrate Dooley, sitting In the Adams street court, on a charge of vagrancy. The complaint against them was made by one of the detectives of the local headquarters bureau and it is Baid that there is behind the charge a more serious one of grand larceny. The people most Interested in the case are the em ployes of one of the big department stores on Fulton street. It is claimed that there has been a collusion among some of the people working in the store to steal provisions barrels of hams and snouiaers, sugar and teas and coffes, and that a lot of property had been stolen -within the last two months. The hams were taken out in barrels covered with burlap on the pretense that they were meat scraps.

Before the m-vstigation is finished it is alleged that half a dozen persons will be implicated. SAYS CARS ARE CROWDED. On complaint of ThomaB F. Cream of Flatbush, the Public Service Commission has ordered Commissioner McCarroll to undertake an Investigation Into the conditions of service on the Flatbush avenue cars and the Flatbush-Seventh ave nue cars- of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system. The charge is made that the cars are crowded.

Hearings will be held on March 15. YES AND NO. Aunt Mary I hope, Emily, that yoj and Charles will nevey become cold i. Emily We may get cold, auntie: but I am sure there is no danger in our becoming distant. We intend tq live alwajl in Wants Law to Prevent a Com- pany From Removing Its Assets.

TO PROTECT POLICY HOLDERS. Senator Wagner Angry Over Delay In the Coney Island Fare Bill. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, March 9 Governor Hughes sent special message to the Legislature last night recommending further re-I'rmj In the Insurance Department, It was Inspired by the recent case of the Washington Life Insurance Company, whose business was transferred to an other company, which removed Its assets In the night from the state. Superintendent Hotchklss, who succeeded Kelsey, compelled return of these assets. In his message Governor Hughes calls atentlon to the necessity for preventing a repetition of such a removal.

He says that In order that the Interests of policy holders may be properly protected the Superintendent ot Insurance should be in a position in times of emergency to take possession of the business of a life In surance corporation to save It from ruin and make easy the resumption of busi ness under proper safeguards. The mes sage concludes as follows: "I therefore recommend that such legislation be enacted as will give to the Superintendent of Insurance powers with respect to taking possession of the prop erty and affairs of Insurance corporations and their liquidation, analogous to the powers conferred last year upon the Su perintendent of Banks. "While these powers should be broad In order that complete protection may be given to policyholders through the ma chinery of the department, without making It necessary to have receivers appointed, there should also be proper provision for recourse to the courts as a safeguard against unjust or arbitrary action. "The existence of such powers will be found, it Is believed, to make their ex erclse rarely necessary, as the provision of an effective remedy will make less likely the development of situations to which It may be applicable." A bill to carry out the provisions of the Governor recommendation will be introduced In a day or two. The reply of the Public Service Com-mislon to the Wagner resolution calling for reasons for the delay of the commis sion in deciding the question of the fare to Coney Island was received by the Sen ate last It told In detail the difficulties In the way of determining scientifically what the fare ought to be and said that before such determination could be reached it would be necessary to have' a complete appraisal of the value of the tangible property of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the Coney island and Brooklyn Railroad Company, Such an appraisal.

Commissioner Willcox said, was now being made, but It was Impossible for him to say Just bow soon the commission would reach Its decision. Senator Wagner listened to the reading of the reply with ill-concealed impa ttence. At its close, he moved to refer the report to the Railroad Committee. In speaking to his motion. Senator Wagner said in part: "It seems to me and to a good many other citizens of New York City that this commission of five distinguished cit izens who draw from the city treasury $15,000 a year ought to be able to reach a decision on this very Important ques tion within a year of the time they be gin investigating.

I voted for the bill which created the commission on the theory that these men could do the work to be done more speedily and efficiently than it could be done by a temporary commission from the Legislature. I con fess that I am somewhat disappointed in the accomplishments of the commission up to the present time. "What are these $15,000 specialists aoing to earn tnelr money? Thev orom iBed to restore the transfers in New York City within a very short time when the Metropolitan waB split up into its several companies. They haven't done it. and they don't appear to be any nearer doing it man mey were at election time.

When I learned the other day that the chief ot their corps of appraisers is drawing $100 a day for his work, I thought I saw a reason wny tney did not work faster. The following bills of interest were Introduced last night: By C. F. Murphy Amending the Pennl Law by making guilty of a misdemeanor every person who in any capacity pre pares, advertises or participates in any Indecent play or entertainment which would tend to the corruption of the morals of youth or others, and every owner, lessee or manager of any place who leases or lets the same or permits It 10 oe usea ior tne purposes of such ex hibltlon. By C.

F. Murphy Amending the Penal Law by making guilty of a misdemeanor every person who prepares or posts, or causes to be prepared or posted. In any public or knowingly permits to be displayed on property belonging to or toiuruiieu Dy mm, any placard, poster, bill or picture which shall tend to demoralize the morals of youth nr nthoro or which shall be lewd, immodest, vulgar, suggestive of immorality, or calculated to shock the sense of decency or propriety. By Mr. Cuvillier Giving the consent of the Legislature to the Constitution of the United States to give the Electoral College until the last Wednesday in April to choose a President.

A TUNNEL SUGGESTED. Subway Traveler Suggests Improve ment at Atlantic Avenue Depot of the L. 1. R. R.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In your issue of March 6 I notice that the Public Service Commission has ordered improvements at the Nostranl avenue station of the Long Island Railroad, which will be of great benefit to the residents of. that section. I would now suggest that the sion take up the matter at the Atlantic avenue depot and see if some arrangements cannot be made whereby the pa- nuiia oi me nuns isiana Kailmad will have better facilities for reaching the trains. In coming from New York on the subway, If you happen to be on a train pulling in at the right-hand platform, you are compelled to walk the full length of that platform and then back the full length of the left-hand platform before reaching the entrance to the Long Island trains. It seems to me that a tunnel could be built from the right-hand platform that would lead somewhere near the entrance ot the Long Island trains, which would be a great convenience.

NOSTRAND AVE. Brooklyn, March 8, 1909. MEAT WILL BE CHEAPER. Atlanta, March 9 "Meat will be cheaper this summer," said J. Ogden Armour, who passe through Atlanta In his private car en route from Palm Beach to Chicago yesterday.

"Meat is high, too high at present," he continued, "but this is because of the increased cost of feeding stock Just now. It follows that when corn is high, meat 1e high. This summer we expect the price of corn to go down, and meat will be cheaper." Wise, He Thinks, to Put Girls in Well Equipped Annex for the Present. NOT AGAINST CO-EDUCATION, And There Never Was Any Plan to Exclude Girls From Manual Training High School. Superintendent of Schools William H.

Maxwell denied this morning that he is opposed to co-education, and again explained the reason for the transfer of the girls from the Manual. Training High School to the building In Windsor Terrace. In a supposed Interview In a morning paper. Dr. Maxwell was made to appear as being in favor of having the girls give way to boys, and as thinking that the boys should always hare the' preference If room Is scarce In th schools.

At his office In the Board of Education Building In Manhattan, this morning. Dr. Maxwell dictated the following statement, which he said covered the matter thoroughly: "The Interview attributed to me In one of the New York papers of tnis morning, ds a very inaccurate report of a conversation I had yesterday with a reporter of that paper. "The only statement that seems to be necessary to make, however, at this time. Is that, owing to the enormous increase in the number of high school students in the Borough of Brooklyn, the regular high school buildings are not sufficiently large to house all who apply; that those who cannot be received In the regular nigh school buildings, are housed In an nexes in elementary school buildings; that there Is no annex which Is unsanl tary; that no one, so far as I know, has ever formulated a policy by which girls are to be excluded from the Manual Training High School: that no one has even thought of such a project; that the boys entering that school have been given the preference In the main building for the simple reason that Is Is the only school In Brooklyn where there Is a high school manual training class, and that the girls of the first year have been placed In an annex building which has been made an Integral part of the Manual Training High School.

"I never gave utterance to the sentiment that girls must give way to boys, but we must adapt ourselves to conditions as we find them." Dr. Maxwell stated that he hoped to have room for the girls who have been sent to the Windsor Terrace school build ing in the Manual Training High School when they are promoted. When told that there are parents vho find it something of a hardship to supply car fare to their children, who would not have to spend the money if allowed to attend the school on Seventh avenue, Dr. Maxwell said that this is a matter that cannot be helped, and he mentioned the Bronx and Richmond, which have only one high school each, to attend which Borne children are obliged to ride many miles. Dr.

Maxwell was questioned concerning the proposed high schools for Bay Ridge and Rldgewood, and said that the main thing to be considered In placing a high school is toi have It convenient to car lines that reach large areas. He declared himself emphatically in favor of the building of another manual training high school in Brooklyn. -The plans for the enlarging of Erasmus Hall High School, Dr. Maxwell said, would be taken up soon, and when they are com pleted the old buildings on the property will probably have to be torn down. The plans for improving the Boys High School are ready, and the work will be started as soon as the money Is available.

The necessity of a gymnasium and laboratory at the Girls High School was also men tioned by Dr. Maxwell, who said he hoped to see them built in the near future. Maxwell declined to discuss the petition which is to be presented to Mayor McCIellan to-morrow, which, it Is said, contains the names of 5,000 people on the Park Slope, protesting against the alleged discrimination against the girls, who are not permitted to attend classes in the Manual Training High School Building. He asked the reporter to lay emphasis on the fact that he is not, In spite of reports to the contrary, opposed to co-educatlop. ITALIAN MURDER A MYSTERY.

Antonio Lombardo Was Assassinated and His Roomate Shot in a Mott Street Tenement. Although the police of the Mulberry street station and Coroner Harburger questioned more than a Bcore of Italians living in the tenement house at 260 Mott street, Manhattan, where Antonio Lom-bardo, 27 years old, was murdered early this morning, they were unable to get any trace of the assassin. One of the roommates of the man was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital suffering from a bullet wound and two other men, also roommates, are locked up in the Mulberry street station being held as witnesses. Lombardo was out last night and returned shortly after midnight, going up the.

long, dark five flights of stairs. Hardly had he opened the door when he was shot, the bullet going through his head. The man managed to stagger into the room and fell dead on his bed. Two other shots were beard by those In the house, and both of these struck Francesco Turco, 25 years old, who was asleep In bed. The entire house was awakened by the shots and the police quickly arrived.

Arturo Curculla, 26, and Donato Caputa, 24, who were in the house, were both arrested and held as witnesses. The two Italians arrested were unable to give the police any clue to the shooting, and the man In the hospital, Turco, said that he was asleep when he was shot. CARRIED OFF A HOUSE. Two Men First Weakened Foundation It Ib Alleger, Then Removed Building Piece by Piece, Antonio Rocco, 46 years old, and Nicholas Laetz, 34 years old, both of 276 Til-lary street, were held to-day by Magistrate Naumer in the Myrtle avenue court, in bail of $200 for the Court of Special Sessions. The men were charged with having demolished the frame bouse 279 Tillary street and carried It away piece by piece.

It is alleged that they had weakened the foundation of the building to such an extent that the latter fell early this morning. No one was hurt. The building belonged to William B. Cook of Sands street. BROOELYNITES IN WASHINGTON Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

Washington, March 9 The following residents of Brooklyn registered at the Eagle Bureau to-day: Mr. and Mrs. John A. Burns. Miss May S.

Henry, Mrs. E. G. Kelly, Miss Sara A. Thomas, Mrs.

C. J. Klnsey, Miss S. Vogelsang and Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Schaper. THERY, NOTED DRIVER, DEAD. Paris, March 9 Leon Thery, the auto-mobilist who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in the International automobile race over the Auvergne France, In July, 1005, died to-day. German Hospital.

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